WHO BACKS DIVERSION? Drug offence diversion involves police, usually on the street, diverting people in possession of illegal Over a dozen police forces in England and Wales, drugs for personal use to a health intervention and and Police Scotland use diversion, backed by: assessment, and further support e.g. [...] This occurs after the drugs have been and Police and Crime Commissioners of all parties - confiscated and normal police checks have been done Conservative (e.g. [...] POLICE-LED DIVERSION OF LOW-RISK YOUTH WHO COME CASE STUDIES: INTO CONTACT WITH THE Avon and Somerset Police ‘Drug Education JUSTICE SYSTEM – INCLUDING Programme’ “ FOR DRUG POSSESSION – IS Since 2016, Avon and Somerset Police have operated MORE EFFECTIVE IN REDUCING a pre-arrest street drug offence diversion scheme with FUTURE CONTACT WITH THE no further action taken if the person attends a drug. [...] WHY USE DIVERSION? ‘DIVERT’ West Midlands Police, expanded to West Mercia Police The vast majority of the 3.2 million people cautioned or prosecuted for drug offences in the UK between In its first two years, this scheme saw police on the 1973-2018 were caught with drugs for their own use. [...] A Bristol police evaluation found “offending has reduced for those who attended the Drug Education Programme and the Universal Harm Score for this cohort has seen a step-change reduction”.
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